Spivak is suspicious of the idea of a free-floating subject that can shed their identity away, as this disregards the fact that many people are marked by their race, gender, and class.

Deleuze and Foucault's theories do not take into account the international division of labor and the ways in which capitalist exploitation shapes people's lives.

Marx's concept of class is not a collective one, but rather a class comprised of splits and breaks and ruptures.

Spivak opposes Deleuze and Foucault's ideas because she believes they erase representation and ignore the signifier, which is a key concept in post-structuralism.

Spivak argues that the subject-object split is a product of Western colonization, where the colonizer assumes superiority over the colonized and creates an 'other' that is inferior and dependent

Spivak critiques the idea that white men have a responsibility to 'save' brown women from brown men, as this perpetuates a colonial and patriarchal power dynamic

The erasure of Indian culture and the sati tradition is a result of British colonialism, which imposed its own ideas of what is good and proper on Indian society.

Sati, or the practice of widow immolation, was not just a simple act of self-sacrifice, but was complex and multi-layered, with multiple motivations and meanings.

The death of Bhuvaneswari Bhaduri, a young woman who was a member of a militant group fighting for Indian independence, was a complex and mysterious event that has been the subject of much speculation and interpretation.

The subaltern, or the voiceless, is a concept that refers to those who are marginalized and excluded from the dominant discourse of society.